The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.1490  Wednesday, 23 July 2003

From:           John Briggs <
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Date:           Tuesday, 22 Jul 2003 13:38:19 +0100
Subject:        Italics in Email

Anna Kamaralli wrote (possibly ironically):

>I'm appalled (almost to the point of working out a way to write e-mail
>in italics)

The convention for writing italics in plain-text e-mail is "/" before,
and "/" after.  Thus:

/italics/ in e-mail *or* (that's *bold*) /italics in e-mail/ (although
line breaks and punctuation characters can interrupt interpretation)

Now all you need is a mail reader that displays italics!  If you are
using Outlook Express, then OE-Quotefix ( http://flash.to/oe-quotefix/ )
is for you!

John Briggs

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